Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Capture Technologies Corporation operates a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The current prosecution status includes 1 pending office action, which signifies a focused level of activity within the patent office. This single pending matter suggests that the company's current legal efforts are concentrated on a specific set of claims or a single application rather than a broad array of simultaneous filings across multiple product lines or technical categories.
The examination of these filings is conducted by 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. TRAN, LEN is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. As the only examiner involved in the current pending workload, their specific review style and history will be the primary factor in the immediate success of the portfolio. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit indicates that the technical focus of the pending work is narrow. This centralized prosecution environment allows for a highly targeted approach to addressing the requirements of the patent office and the specific preferences of the assigned examiner, which may streamline the path to allowance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (100%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, LEN | 1 | 14.9% | +23.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
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